52% of anti-LGBTQ+ attacks targeted transgender and gender nonconforming people
There were 932 anti-LGBTQ+ incidents between May 1, 2024 and May 1, 2025 – equal to 2.5 incidents every day, according to GLAAD.
JUNE 2, 2025
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anti-lgbtq extremism reporting tracker
Many trans Americans are living in fear. But LGBTQ+ advocates see a reprieve in statehouses
The number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills being signed into law has shifted in the last year, leaving advocates feeling “cautiously optimistic” over a turning of the legislative tide.
APRIL 16, 2024
Here's how Project 2025's anti-transgender policies could impact all families
The vision for Trump’s second term in the White House purports to protect families — but its anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric is centered in exclusion.
AUGUST 28, 2024
Right-wing extremists threaten LGBTQ-affirming religious communities: report
A new GLAAD report sheds light on the alarming trend.
APRIL 15, 2025
A second Trump term would double down on erasing transgender rights. Here’s how advocates are preparing.
“We’ve seen over the last several years a militant effort in red states by the government to discriminate against trans folks, in particular, and the broader LGBTQ community, and even to go so far as to try to deny trans people's existence,” said Mike Zamore, national director of policy and governmental affairs at the ACLU.
JUNE 16, 2024
Here’s what we know about how Trump will tackle these major issues
Though there are still many unknowns, here is what we know so far about how a second Trump term will approach reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, the economy, education, immigration, and aging and disability care.
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Domestic violence nonprofits rocked by Trump funding freeze
Gender-based violence organizations have begun to self-edit their public-facing media out of fear they will lose federal grants essential to the provision of life-saving services.
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
These 24 violent extremist & anti-LGBTQ+ advocacy groups pose a danger to LGBTQ+ people
Looking at the groups that threaten drag queens, transgender people and the broader LGBTQ+ community.
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
These are the 5 states with the smallest amount of LGBTQ+ people
The states with the fewest queer people are also some of the states proposing and passing the most anti-LGBTQ+ laws.
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DECEMBER 4, 2024
More states are pushing to stop legally recognizing trans people in public life
Proposed bills would exclude transgender and nonbinary people from updating driver’s licenses, holding public office and accessing public restrooms.
JANUARY 24, 2024
Unfilled prescriptions, missed checkups, loneliness: States' anti-LGBTQ+ moves affect health
Most of the extreme bills have failed to pass, but trans adults are watching statehouses with heightened anxiety.
MARCH 19, 2024
Project 2025 vowed to roll back LGBTQ+ rights. Here's everything Trump has done so far
Donald Trump claimed on the campaign trail that he had "nothing to do" with Project 2025 — but now that he's in office, he's implementing it.
MAY 6, 2025